Circle over Calera, AL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It was the size of a beach ball eventhought the distance was so far. I mean I was in a straightway and from there you can see the sky for so far ina 360 radius. It came from the Alabaster side going toward Jemison and was at a speed that is not possible without a sonic boom then suddenly before going out of sight just dead stopped and Boom just like that shot straight up and was gone in a blink of an eye.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #166425). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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